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Comment by the_origami_fox | original | A family tree of software job titles
[−]the_origami_fox · 2026-11-15 Sun 08:01 UTC · link
My path is software engineer -> data engineer which isn't on here.

Some data engineers do come the SQL path, which is shown , but I came from a software background and work with AWS, Azure, Spark, Python, Scala and IaC. I'm always shocked at my peers lack of basic software foundations - I had an intermediate ask me what a "Python environment" was!